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A convicted armed robber who fled a California prison 36 years ago is back behind bars after being apprehended in Arkansas, the FBI said.

Michael Morrow, 70, was arrested Monday in Jessieville, Ark., without incident, Special Agent in Charge Randall Coleman said in a statement. He said Morrow was taken into custody by FBI agents and officers with the Garland County. Ark., Sheriff's Department.

In 1973, Morrow began serving what was supposed to be a minimum of 10 years in prison for a Long Beach robbery. The affadavit says he escaped the California Institute for Men Facility in Chino in 1977. It said investigators matched fingerprints to those of a man using the name of Carl Wilson when he was arrested by the Saline County Sheriff's Department in 1984.

The investigation was part of "Operation Manhunt," a cold-case effort by the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department Fugitive Task Force. The task force obtained a federal warrant charging Morrow with unlawful flight to avoid confinement in June.

Morrow was being held in the Garland County Jail awaiting extradition to California.